When acclimated to human presence in supportive settings like wildlife rescues and zoos, elephants can form close friendships ...
Botswana received nearly $4 million from last year’s hunting season despite UK efforts to ban African wildlife trophies ...
Botswana’s hunting revenues nearly doubled in 2024, earning $4 million—up from $2.7 million in 2023—despite rising ...
Globally, the African elephant population was obliterated by the ivory trade in the 19th and 20th centuries. In Botswana, however, elephant numbers have more than tripled since the 1980s.
When a bull elephant and hippo meet in a watering hole, it's not always a peaceful coexistence. In the accompanying footage, captured by Scott Hyman in Botswana, South Africa, the much larger ...
Maintaining current elephant numbers, let alone reversing declines, requires new thinking and conservation innovation.
With Botswana fighting against a proposed UK parliament legislation that seeks to ban the importation of legally harvested ...
The data showed that some of these watering holes had experienced blooms of algae containing deadly toxins. An analysis of ...
Botswana issues around 400 elephant licenses annually, with most purchased by overseas hunters. Wynter Mmolotsi, minister of environment and tourism, told Parliament Thursday that millions of ...